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Inspect Local Assets with the Image Viewer

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Inspect Local Assets with the Image Viewer

Images in a Markdown project are files too. Markdown Explorer can open a workspace image in its own tab instead of sending it to a separate application.

Open an image

Select a supported image in the File Explorer. The Image Viewer opens the asset and displays its filename above the image.

The toolbar provides:

On the web, drag the zoomed image with the mouse to pan across it.

Review a documentation screenshot

A practical image-review workflow is:

  1. Open docs/setup.md in one pane.
  2. Open img/setup/account-screen.png in the other pane.
  3. Zoom in to check labels or small UI text.
  4. Return to 100% with Reset.
  5. Update the Markdown alt text or nearby instructions.

The source remains the original workspace asset. Viewing and zooming do not rewrite or compress it.

Image Viewer versus Markdown Preview

Use Markdown Preview when you need to judge an image in the context of a page:

![Account settings screen](../img/setup/account-screen.png)

Use the Image Viewer when you need to inspect the image itself. The two views work well in Split View.

Markdown Explorer can also paste clipboard images into a predictable document-scoped path, adjust rendered image size, and rename managed assets. Those actions can change a file or its Markdown reference; the Image Viewer’s zoom and pan controls do not.

Keep relative image paths inside the opened project whenever possible. That makes the document portable to Git, a static-site exporter, and another Markdown editor.

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